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WorksheetsMacbeth Vocab RRHS
Total questions: 44
Worksheet time: 1hrs 2mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is MALICE?
a)
A form of the name Alice.
b)
A desire to do evil or harm
c)
A condition of being extremely enraged.
d)
An exotic spice that can burn your mouth.
2.
What is LAVISH?
a)
using lavender scented lotion
b)
richly elaborate or fancy
c)
making someone work long hours for little pay
d)
using the last of your money foolishly
3.
What is PREDOMINATE?
a)
having an ability to hypnotize others
b)
to be the strongest
c)
being skillful at the game Dominos
d)
being ready before anyone else
4.
What is PERNICIOUS?
a)
causing a permanent condition
b)
a child who is picky with food
c)
having a harmful effect
d)
a woman who enjoys big game hunting
5.
What is PRISTINE?
a)
excessively proper; affectedly correct; prim
b)
at this time; at hand; immediate
c)
to be in perfect condition
d)
noting an action or state occurring at the moment of speaking or writing
6.
What is SURMISE?
a)
knowledge gained through study, communication, research, instruction,etc.
b)
lacking in knowledge or training
c)
to be educated, refined, or cultured
d)
to assume something
7.
What is DAUNTLESS?
a)
unable to speak
b)
cowardly
c)
missing an opportunity
d)
fearless
8.
After __ing all night, Dan found it very difficult to get up the next morning and go to work.
a)
carouse
b)
mar
c)
upbraid
9.
The __ed child slunk up to her room, vowing never to be so stupid again.
a)
appease
b)
chastise
c)
dwindle
10.
The once-treasured bracelet was now nothing but a __, an unimportant leftover from a failed relationship.
a)
lechery
b)
malice
c)
trifle
11.
Katrina’s terror was __; it was easy to see something horrible had just happened.
a)
avaricious
b)
palpable
c)
pristine
12.
The __ little boy had no friends, but never did understand it was because he was unwilling to ever share.
a)
avaricious
b)
desolate
c)
palpable
13.
Child molesters seem to have an inborn __ they cannot resist.
a)
fury
b)
lechery
c)
nonpareil
14.
Latrina never did respect her coach after he __ed her in front of everyone for something she didn’t even do.
a)
appease
b)
dwindle
c)
upbraid
15.
While collecting awards is a wonderful achievement, it is even more __ to collect love and then share it.
a)
corporal
b)
laudable
c)
wayward
16.
Nothing could __ the peacefulness of the quiet sunrise and beautiful scenery.
a)
chastise
b)
dwindle
c)
mar
17.
The __ staph infection quickly ravaged my uncle’s body; he lasted less than two months.
a)
diminutive
b)
laudable
c)
pernicious
18.
With his cash supply __ing rapidly, Paul knew he was going to have to find a job soon.
a)
appease
b)
dwindle
c)
upbraid
19.
True __ requires a total lack of scruples [morals]; most people, thank goodness, don’t have that capability.
a)
fury
b)
malice
c)
trifle
20.
While the desert might seem __, compared to the surface of the moon, it’s overflowing with life!
a)
corporal
b)
desolate
c)
pristine
21.
The __ burning of a church whose beliefs you don’t agree with is illegal, since the Constitution guarantees freedom of religion.
a)
corporal
b)
palpable
c)
sacrilegious
22.
Because of the __ condition of the Mickey Mantle baseball card, it brought in almost $500,000.
a)
cloistered
b)
pristine
c)
wayward
23.
Because I was unsure of the San Francisco weather, I packed a(n) ______________ of clothing items to wear.
a)
didactic
b)
sundry
c)
entrail
d)
bedlam
24.
In some foreign countries, the wormy _____________ of an animal are considered a delicacy.
a)
laudable
b)
harbinger
c)
upbraid
d)
entrails
25.
Foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention
a)
apocolyptic
b)
prescient
c)
prognostic
d)
prophetic
26.
The tumor could be felt by the doctor because it was ____________________.
a)
largesse
b)
temperate
c)
palpable
d)
binine
27.
Which of the following would be the best definition for the word palpable?
a)
easily perceive
b)
easily understood
c)
difficult to understand
d)
both easy to perceive and understand
28.
What is the definition of the term carousing?
a)
drunken merrymaking
b)
to run around
29.
When the team was down 30-0 in the 4th quarter, hope for a win began to ___________.
a)
console
b)
commandeer
c)
dwindle
d)
entice
30.
extravagant and abundant
a)
lavish
b)
ramshackle
c)
sage
d)
transcend
31.
prophetic
a)
accurately describing or predicting what will happen in the future.
b)
ask for or try to obtain something from someone.
c)
To adhere closly; stick; cling
d)
being without check or limitation
32.
to suppose; to guess
a)
surmise
b)
reiterate
c)
divulge
d)
fester
33.
To treat someone or something as unimportant
a)
trifle
b)
triffle
c)
trifel
d)
triffel
34.
the violation of anything sacred, irreverent toward what is held to be sacred.
a)
penitentiary
b)
sacrilegious
c)
pews
35.
A joke or trick that is played on someone is called an ______________
a)
attic
b)
antic
c)
attempt
d)
anthology
36.
Motivated by _________, the employee stole thousands of dollars from the company vault.
a)
avarice
b)
lechery
c)
sundry
d)
didactic
37.
worthy of praise.
a)
laudable
b)
labryinth
c)
lament
d)
lesion
38.
Something that is harmful, like a feud might be described as ______________.
a)
piteous
b)
pernicious
c)
civil
d)
forswear
39.
Which principle states that the government is subject to the will of the people (the people decide)?
a)
limited government
b)
checks and balances
c)
popular sovereignty
d)
federalism
40.
What is sovereignty?
a)
independent power
b)
to fix something to make it better
c)
a public disagreement
d)
a person who advocates something
41.
The marriage counselor will more than likely have to ____ the heated discussion between the couple.
a)
arbitrate
b)
despondency
c)
undermine
d)
supplicant
42.
Class of powerful, well-to-do people made up of scholar-officials and their families
a)
Gentry
b)
Clan
c)
Samurai
d)
Pastoralist
43.
agitation; anxiety; nervousness
a)
Rectify
b)
Megolamania
c)
Nirvana
d)
Perturbation
44.
find fault with someone; scold
a)
harbinger
b)
lecherous
c)
upbraid
d)
avaricious
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